Siliceous raw materials between Rhine and Scheldt: constitution of a rock library using international standards
- https://paths.unamur.be/acanthum/siliceous-raw-materials-between-rhine-and-scheldt-constitution-of-a-rock-library-using-international-standards
- Siliceous raw materials between Rhine and Scheldt: constitution of a rock library using international standards
- 2022-02-07T00:00:00+01:00
- 2022-02-12T23:59:59+01:00
- Scientific Events for Young Researchers of the Franco-German University
- Quoi Workshop AcanthuM
- Quand Du 07/02/2022 au 12/02/2022 (Europe/Brussels / UTC100)
- Où Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, Cologne University
- Nom du contact Silviane Scharl, Solène Denis, Jean-Philippe Collin
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Training course on the petrology of silicites
The training course organised in Cologne from 7 to 12 February 2022 will focus on introducing and updating knowledge on the characterisation of silicites (flint, chert, silcrete, jasperoids) used to make tools by prehistoric communities. Integrated into action III of the GDR "Silex" (directed by C. Bressy-Leandri, French ministry of culture and communication), its objective is to promote the conceptual advances and the most recently developed characterisation methods, to explain them, and to encourage their dissemination with a view to harmonising, networking and pooling siliceous geomaterial references on a European scale. Recent methodological advances, taking into account the concept of the 'evolutionary chain' make it possible to overcome many dead ends in terms of characterising the origins of rocks. Applied to the Upper Cretaceous flints of the Benelux (silicites from the Mons Basin, the Hesbaye and Limburg), the dissemination of these new methods has the ambition of reinforcing the skills of petroarchaeologists and archaeologists and enabling them to develop more reliable models. These models, which concern individual or collective behaviour, territoriality and mobility systems, or transfers and exchanges during prehistory, are at the heart of the research of many laboratories.
This event is the aftermath of the workshops cycle INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS FOR THE TECHNO-ECONOMIC STUDY OF LITHIC PRODUCTIONS IN THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD held in 2019.
